Edward Abbey

Edward Paul Abbey ( January 29, 1927 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, † March 14, 1989 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American naturalist, philosopher and writer, the southwestern United States dedicated to his work. His best known works include Desert Solitaire and the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which inspired radical environmental activists, including to the creation of Earth First! and the term " Monkeywrenching ".

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

Letters

• 2006: Cactus Chronicles published by Orion Magazine, Jan- August 2006 (no longer active ).
• 2006: Postcards from Ed (book) | Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, ISBN 1-57131-284-6.

Anthologies

Quotes

• "In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. Fact is the principal structural difference in between the two great oligarchies of our time. "

• " Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, we can not entrust the management did of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. "

• "The tragedy of war is modern the young men did the fighting eachother instead - of Their real enemies back home in the capitals. "

• " Society is like a stew. If you do not stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. "